Banker’s stepmother ruined my son’s marriage – Akolade’s father

November 30, 2012 : Temitayo Famutimi

Akolade and Titilayo | credits: File copy

Mudashiru Arowolo, father of 31-year-old Akolade Arowolo, who allegedly killed his banker-wife, Titilayo, lamented before an Ikeja High Court that Titilayo’s stepmother, Adetoun Oyakhire, caused bitter enmity between the couple.

Mudashiru, a trader who testified as the first defence witness on Thursday, said Adetoun’s undue interference led to a series of quarrels by the couple.

Mudashiru, while being led in evidence by the defence lawyer, Olanrewaju Ajanaku, said though the couple always engaged in heated arguments, he had neither seen nor heard that Akolade physically assaulted Titilayo.

He said, “He was never a violent man. They became married on October 4, 2008 after she (Titilayo) got pregnant for my son. They only courted for barely two and half months before the wedding.

“But they were always having quarrels. The first of such quarrels known to me was when Titilayo requested for N500,000 to buy baby things but Akolade insisted on giving her N100,000.

“But, I was shocked when Titilayo gave birth and Adetoun was requesting for the placenta of the baby. Both of them quarrelled on this and when the medical doctor used his discretion and gave the placenta to Akolade, Titilayo chose to return to her parents’ home when she was discharged from hospital.”

He told the court that Adetoun also took Titilayo to a hospital sometimes in December 2010 and made her have an abortion without Akolade’s consent.

He said, “It was discovered that Titilayo was emaciating and when we sought to know what was happening she said she had an abortion on the instruction of her stepmother.

“She said she also did family planning in which her womb was tied. She broke down and told me it was as if she was hypnotised because she doesn’t know why she always obey all her (Adetoun’s) orders.”

Mudashiru added that he was surprised when he learnt that Titilayo was found dead in his son’s residence.

He said, “Titilayo was always in the habit of leaving the house in anger whenever he and his husband had quarrels. He packed out of my son’s house in January 2011.

“She refused to return when I didn’t go to beg her parents as I used to do in time past. I was shocked to find her dead in his house on June 24, 2011.”

Mudashiru faulted earlier claims by the pathologist that the deceased had over 76 stab wounds, saying, “There might be manipulations. I saw her corpse on the bed after we forced the door open and when I looked at her, I observed three wounds on her body.”

He described his daughter-in-law as a violent lady, adding that he had overheard her saying to her husband, “I will kill you and I will kill myself too.”

Mudashiru, while being cross-examined by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mrs. Olabisi Ogungbesan, admitted that he made statement at the State Criminal Investigation Department that he “didn’t know why Akolade decided to kill his wife.”

Ogungbesan tendered the copy of the statement and it was marked by the court as exhibit B1.

However, while being re-examined, Mudashiru said he made the statement because the “Investigating Police Officer asked him to write it like that.”

Mudashiru also denied knowledge that Akolade was suspended at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Gbagada, for wife battering and womanising.

After Mudashiru concluded his testimony, Justice Lateefa Okunnu, adjourned till December 4 for continuation of defence.

yoruba with killing and juju, i guess this guy was underthe influence of witches

kangbe d.k

Celtic, you sound often like an unenlightened fellow. To the enlightened minds, the examination and cross-examination records of the court should be carefully followed to appreciate how criminal cases especially MURDER are conducted. Legal minds can see the foundations carefully been laid by both the Prosecution on the one hand and the defence on the other. While Kolades father is led to lay a foundation that his son is not a violent character while the deceased victim was known for a threat to kill and to commit suicide, the prosecution’s cross examination is meant to establish Kolade as known wife batterer and womaniser and violent person. So we should expect to see witnesses or at least one from Kolades cgurch – RCCG. Note also that the defence is trying to attack the Pathologists testimony that the wounds on the body of the victim were over seventy: remember that the defence counsel while crossexamining the Pathologist opined that he must have been the one that punctured the dead body during the post-mortem. The man retorted that only a deranged professional/expert would have done such. He laid his solid credentials as an expert pathologist before the court and the defence could not tear it apart. The defence will look for aby loophole to serve as an escape route for Kolade while the Prosecution will battle to present a cast-iron case of murder. Lagos State is often blessed with high grade Attorneys Generl and therefore expected to do a good work like in the case of Abatcha’s guy that killed Abiolas wife. Barrister Ipaye may not be as reknown as Prof Osibajo, but Ipaye is also a very bright mind from the same UNILAG Law faculty.

zebrudaya

somebody killed his wife korokoro and the case is still going on since that time till today,this guy is lucky in america this is first degree murder case 90 years with out parole

okongwu

This is part of the reason poeple restore to jungle justice

Falak

I believe by the time they finish the case very thing will be clear to the general public. And this to both men/women dont marry somebody just because you are/she is pregnant for you. There must be love first before considering marriage

eniola

People can lie, because you want to save your son, the spirit of the dead lady will fight you.

Looker ansd watcher

I am waiting for the mostly Igbo ethnic jingoists to start singing anti Yoruba songs …. Yorubas do juju and are evil ..etc , etc !!! ….. Oh , there is one already …. See, I guessed right. ( same set of moronic idiots jubilating and cursing Buhari when he lost his first daughter to sickle cell ailment)

Johnson

Celtics or what is that your name? I think it is clear from your name that you are eccentric by bringing ethnicity into this matter. Is there any tribe in Nigeria or all over the world where crime is not committed ? please recharge your thinking faculty.

GRACE

AKOLADE’S FATHER WILL NOT DIE WELL COS HE PROMISED TO “SPEAK THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH” MUDERRERS! I MET HER DEAD IN MY SON’S HOUSE… WHY DID YOUR SON RAN OF OF THE HOUSE WITH BLOOD STAIN ON HIS BODY IDIOT?

Lol

@johnson 10ks so much, d guy is an overheated idiot with d devilish ministration of tribalism.

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Oselennen

@ Eniola and Grace. Let the law take its right judgement.Please stop insulting Akolade’s father. Mr. Mudashiru. He was called to give evidence, you should expect him to speak in favor of his. If you Love the decease remember she has a child, do want that child to be an orphan just like that?. let the case be handle with care and free mind, not with hatred and anger, so that the truth can be reach.
God knows why things turns out to be how it is.
God help us and direct our foot steeps, Minds and utterances.

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Clems

@ Looker ansd, why nt reason like a detribalised man? See u cal Igbos names, ur comment is of no use and serve no purpose. Wake up pls!

me

@ Oselenene i rather to prefer to remain an orphan that to have a father that me made me motherless. i even blame Titi for marrying jobless and hopeless husband like Akolade

sky

@Me do u have a job? what has joblessness got to do with this case, I wonder how some people reason in this part of the world!

Snatch

“what has joblessness got to do with this case, I wonder how some people reason in this part of the world!”

HOW CAN ANY SANE HUMAN ASK THIS KIND OF QUESTION?! OBVIOUSLY HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT DEPRESSION IS, AND THAT DEPRESSION CAN LEAD TO ANGER, LOW SELF ESTEEM, VIOLENCE, WITHDRAWAL AND EVEN MURDEROUS TENDENCIES. PLEASE, IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY, KEEP QUIET, LEST YOU DISPEL ALL DOUBTS ABOUT YOUR IQ

Snatch

Snatch November 30, 2012 at 2:57 pm

‘Empty’ Sky “what has joblessness got to do with this case, I wonder how some people reason in this part of the world!”

HOW CAN ANY SANE HUMAN ASK THIS KIND OF QUESTION?! OBVIOUSLY HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT JOBLESSNESS CAN LEAD TO DEPRESSION IS, AND THAT DEPRESSION CAN LEAD TO ANGER, LOW SELF ESTEEM, VIOLENCE, WITHDRAWAL AND EVEN MURDEROUS TENDENCIES. PLEASE, IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY, KEEP QUIET, LEST YOU DISPEL ALL DOUBTS ABOUT YOUR IQ

ade

the truth is unfolding now. i strongly believe that guy is not as bad as we thought.

omo

that step mum should be jailed.

Behold truth

NOVEMBER 30, 2012 BY TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI 20 COMMENTS

Whoever this journalist is, is a cow! So you cannot tell the difference between a ” he nd she” OLODO! Yoruba ti for ori e! Go back to school you half baked journalist. You no even Abi write or speak English. Ode

FAITH AKO

I CAN SEE THE FATHER TO AKOLADE IS TRYING HARD TO EXONERATE HIS SON UNFORTUNATELY HE INITIALLY MAINTAINED OTHERWISE IN PREVIOUS INTERVIEWS.

Jacquapo

Why is this man telling lies now ? He has forgotten that he had previously been interviewed by this same punch, and his story then was different. Old man, Police investigator told you to write a statement ‘like that’ and you obeyed, if the policeman told you to write that it was you that killed the lady, you will write it ‘like that’ abi ?

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